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- Birth nameEmanuel Farber
- Manny Farber was born on February 20, 1917 in Douglas, Arizona, USA. He was a writer, known for Negative Space (2000). He was married to Patricia Patterson, Janet Terrace and Marsha Picker. He died on August 18, 2008 in Leucadia, California, USA.
- SpousesPatricia Patterson(? - August 18, 2008) (his death, 1 child)Janet Terrace (divorced)Marsha Picker (divorced)Patricia Patterson(? - August 18, 2008) (his death)
- Film critic and abstract painter.
- Credited with coining the phrase "underground films.".
- He often said that James Agee was among his closest friends and was also friendly with Robert De Niro's father.
- [on William A. Wellman]: In any Bill Wellman operation, there are at least four directors - a sentimentalist, deep thinker, hooey vaudevillian and an expedient short-cut artist whose special love is for mulish toughs expressing themselves in drop-kicking heads and sombre standing around.
- [on Anthony Mann]: The films of this tin-can De Sade have a Germanic rigor, caterpillar intimacy, and an original dictionary of ways in which to punish the human body. Mann has done interesting work with scissors, a cigarette lighter and steam, but his most bizarre effect takes place in a taxidermist's shop. By intricate manipulation of athletes' bodies, Mann tries to ram the eyes of his combatants on the horns of a stuffed deer stuck on the wall.
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